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** Or Inuyasha even teaming up with {{spoiler|Sesshoumaru}} to fight Naraku.

* ''[[Naruto]]'': Zabuza Momochi, after Haku dies. Unfortunately, [[Redemption Equals Death]].

* Negi and Kotaro in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' do this to take down the demon Wilhelm. [[Fire-Forged Friends|Kotaro ultimately joined]] the [[True Companions]].

* ''[[Bleach]]'':

* By the end of the series, rivals Ranma and Ryoga of ''[[Ranma ½]]'' spend almost as much time fighting on the same side as they do against each other, eventually settling into [[Friendly Enemy]] territory after a number of [[Enemy Mine]] situations. Mousse also joins them occasionally, especially against true [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] like Prince Herb and Saffron.

* ''[[One Piece]]''. Impel Down Arc. Enough to go around.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': [[The Alliance|the Allies]] definitely count as this. France, America, and England are not exactly enemies, but they do argue a lot; America and Russia are obviously on bad terms; China seems to look down on everyone except Russia ... the only thing they all have in common is that they're fighting the Axis.

* Considering the show revolves around their rivalry, ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' does this with Kazuma and Ryuho teaming up to defeat [[Conflict Killer]] Kyoji Mujo, much like the [[Devil May Cry]] example below. They even duke it out with each other after they defeated their common enemy!

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Gentleman Johnnie Marcone teams up with Harry Dresden in ''White Night'', book nine of [[The Dresden Files]] while fighting ghouls in a natural [[Elaborate Underground Base]] owned by the White Court.

** This is hardly the only time Marcone and Dresden join forces, and whenever they do, much awesomeness ensues. They don't do it often, however, since Dresden vigorously hates Marcone's guts and is probably the only living being of whom Marcone is genuinely <s>afraid</s> wary.

* Gollum in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' guides Frodo.

* ''[[Honor Harrington]]'': As of "A Rising Thunder", {{spoiler|Manticore and Haven, at each other's throats continuously for over two decades and preparing for war with each other for several decades before that, form a military alliance. The new main bad guys of the series, who have been playing them for centuries, essentially shit a brick when they find out.}}

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

* ''[[Exo Squad]]'' is a complex case: we have the [[Artificial Human|Neosapien]] [[Ace Pilot]] Thrax who is [[The Rival]] of sorts to [[The Squad]] (particularly, [[Young Gun|Kaz Takagi]]). In the end of the second season, Thrax realizes the pointlessness of the war and disbands his garrison, effectively pulling a [[Heel Face Turn]] without directly facing the heroes.

* ''[[Word Girl]]'''s titular character and the villainous Dr. Two-brains work together to stop Glenn, Two-Brain's crazed [[Fan Boy]] gone bad, trying to one-up Two-brains' every scheme in some minor way.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Hundreds of thousands of years ago, both primitive humans and wolves had become two of the most successful top level predators on earth, forming complex social groups and hunting in packs, bringing down prey much larger than themselves. At some point some people must have figured out that local wolf packs did not have to be rivals for the same territories, and using similar tactics and social structures made working as a team possible. And it turned out to work very, very, well for them.

** During the 19th and early 20th century, the small Australian town of Eden at Twofold Bay had been home to several small groups of whalers who hunted whales in small rowed boats from the coast. The whalers often got into conflict with a local group of orcas that hunted in the area and often tried to snatch away the whalers catches. Apparently the Davidson and Greig families were much nicer to the orcas and stuck to using rowed boats and hand thrown harpoons, so the orcas started to drive their prey near the Davidsons home and keep it from escaping until the humans got their boats out to kill the whales. The orcas where then allowed to eat the easily reachable parts of the dead whales before the humans would pull them to shore and cut up the much larger rest of the bodies. Being among the smartest animals in the world, the orcas eventually began to send one of them ahead to alert the humans that the main group was on their way driving a group of whales into the bay. They were also known to often play with the boats by grabbing ropes hanging in the water, and reportedly even pulled the boats on occasion, as they swam much faster and easily had the size and strength required for it.

* Americans and Russians VS Germany in [[WW 2]]. Many [[WW 2]] veterans and historians often cite the result of this trope as the reason for Germany's defeat being inevitable after 1941. Interestingly enough, the two superpowers would pull off this trope again [[In Space]] via the International Space Station. In fact, there's a rather surprising degree of cooperation amongst rivals (and even allies) in space programs; considering the nature of space operations, though, this strategy is extremely successful.

* The [[wikipedia:Steagles|Steagles]], a 1943 alliance of longtime rival NFL teams from Pennsylvania when most of their regular players were drafted to fight [[World War II]]. ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_20195_the-5-most-insane-teams-in-history-sports.html The 5 Most Insane Teams in the History of Sports] calls the concept "too stupid even for a sports movie".

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